Caillou's New Adventures

Caillou's New Adventures
The return of the "brat".
Genre: Educational Slice-of-life Running Time: 20-40 minutes Country: United Kingdom Canada United States (voice recording) Release Date: November 24, 2016 - present Network(s): YouTube Cartoonito Distributed by: WildBrain Spark Seasons: 4 Episodes: 140+ Previous show: Caillou (1997) Next show: Caillou (2024)

Caillou's New Adventures is a British-Canadian educational children's animated television series and reboot of the original Caillou produced by WildBrain subsidiary WildBrain Spark Studios and premiered on November 24, 2016.

Why Each Day, It Still Doesn't Grow Some More

1. The title is misleading, as a majority of the episodes are just remakes of the old episodes from the original series.
   1. Later, it would thankfully make original plots.
2. It doesn't really improve anything over the original show had and instead makes it worse. The exceptions being where Caillou actually gets grounded a few times (more about that below), Caillou and Rosie acting way more tolerable, etc.
3. The characters have been flanderized.
   • Caillou himself has been reverted back to his seasons 1 and 2 roots, continuing to act like a whiny, spoiled brat. He is also more obnoxious than he was before, but luckily he redeemed himself in later episodes.
   • Rosie is even more whiny and demanding than she already was in the original show, but luckily she redeemed herself in later episodes too.
4. Terrible, cheap, rough, and overall mediocre-looking Flash animation. All of the character movements are stilted and very poorly animated. Even the Flash animation from the last two seasons of the original show looked much better, though it thankfully doesn't look as bad as the GoAnimate videos.
5. Dull voice acting, despite Boris, Grandpa, and all of the other adult males being voiced by Mike Pollock out of all people (he provided the voices for Dr. Eggman in the English dub of Sonic X, as well as Bigoriki in the 4Kids dub of Gogoriki, and Langston Lickatoad in the Viva Piñata series.
   • Caillou sounds way older than a 4/5-year-old most of the time unlike in the original series, though it actually sounds slightly more tolerable than the original one.
6. In this video, every single character was voiced by the same woman., Thankfully later on it was redubbed.
7. Much like a lot of other reboots, it tries way too hard to modernize its source material, but it doesn't work, and it ends up making it feel like a completely different cartoon.
8. A lot of the episodes' titles are misleading, due to WildBrain having a habit of clickbaiting. An episode has the title called Caillou Gets Pranked where the thumbnail shows Caillou crying when he sees a shark's fin around him. In reality, this actually does not happen in the video as it follows Caillou and his family going to the beach.
   • Oddly enough, this episode "pranks" the viewers into watching the video.
   • The episode Caillou and the Bully has a thumbnail where Caillou gets a black eye after being punched in the face by Alex, when that doesn't even happen in the video at all, as Alex only pushes Caillou to the ground instead.
9. It tries way too hard to be "hip and cool" with the kids. One video revolves around Caillou playing with a fidget spinner, and there's another video where and he one of his friends play "The Floor is Lava", the latter being a dead trend that already died out by 2018.
10. Cliche plots, even for what the show is. Even more cliche than the original.
11. Bland soundtrack for a majority of the episodes.
12. For some reason, Mrs. Martin gives everybody the test which most of them are in preschool, they can't be tested. Also, why is Sarah in the same classroom as Caillou when she is a little bit older?
13. Mediocre and sometimes uncanny-looking character designs though it thankfully improved in later episodes.
14. Quanity over quality: Similar to Johnny Test (2005), South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Alvin and The Chipmunks (2015), Teen Titans Go!, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House, the show suffers from seasonal rot as the series still keeps airing having about 4 seasons and 140 episodes.

Qualities That Can Grow Some More

1. Unlike the original show, Caillou does actually somewhat end up getting punished; with there being two examples.
   • One example was not listening to his mom to get off of his video games.
   • Another time was for banging on the table, and for not eating his broccoli. And for trying to escape his room to play with his friends.
   • And by that of what is said above of the good area, it even manages to make an influence on the infamous Vyond's "Caillou Gets Grounded" series of Grounded Videos.
2. Adding on to the previous pointer. Caillou getting grounded for his behavior means that Boris and Doris are actually receiving character development, becoming more likable than they were in the original.
3. It brought back Andy from the original series' episode "Follow Me" starting with the episode "Fire Alarm", which was actually a nice touch, especially considering that the original series wasted him after the former episode.
4. There is an episode about racism and how it's bad called "Caillou Stands Against Racism", which was actually pretty decent at best, even though Caillou might be one of the last cartoons that anyone would want to talk about serious topics like this.
5. Other episodes can be decent at times.
6. The character designs starting with "Doctor Caillou's Patient" are actually a step up, as they look less rigid, despite them being less faithful character designs in the original series (especially Caillou).
7. Caillou and the other characters would later redeem themselves, albeit minimally, in the later episodes.
8. Caillou's new voice actor is slightly better than the old one, despite still being annoying and making him sound a little older.
9. Later episodes at least tried to do something original instead of rehashing the episodes from the old show.
10. Despite the soundtrack being bland, it can be enjoyable at times.
    • The songs from the series can be decent too, like "I Can Be Anything".

Reception

The series received overwhelmingly negative reviews, as it has a 3.6/10 on IMDb.

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